Campaign to support the production of the book by Pulitzer Prize-winning Palestinian writer Mosab Abu Toa.
Mosab Abu Toha is a Palestinian poet, short story writer, and essayist from Gaza. Abu Toha is the author of Things You Might Find Hidden in My Ear: Poems from Gaza (2022, City Lights), which won the 2022 Palestine Book Award. Abu Toha is the founder of the Edward Said Library and, between 2019 and 2020, was a guest poet and resident librarian at Harvard University. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award.
In his debut book of poetry, Mosab Abu Toha writes about his life under siege in Gaza, first as a child, then as a young father. A survivor of four brutal military attacks, he witnesses an incessant cycle of destruction and aggression, and yet his poetry is inspired by profound humanity. These poems emerge directly from the experience of growing up and living in permanent confinement, often under direct attack. Like Gaza itself, they are filled with rubble and the constant threat of surveillance drones policing an unwanted people in their own land, but they are also imbued with the scent of tea, blooming roses, and the sight of the sea at sunset. The book is accompanied by an in-depth interview (conducted by Ammiel Alcalay), in which Abu Toha talks about life in Gaza, his family origins, and how he came to poetry.
